How To Get Backlinks To Your Site By Social Bookmarking

In order to get ranked highly in search engines it is important to know how to get backlinks to your site. Backlinks are incoming links from other websites that are an indication of how popular your site is. Among the many ways you can get a backlinks are submitting articles to article directories, posting comments in forums with a link to your website in the signature line, or commenting on blogs. Social bookmarking is another way to get quality backlinks to your website.

What Is Social Bookmarking?
Think of social bookmarking as being the same as saving a bookmark of a website you like in your browser. You simply go into your bookmarking site, use their search tool to find websites of interest, and bookmark the link to the web page that you like using the tools available. The difference between a social bookmarking site and a search engine is instead of a search engine determining the importance, or ranking, of the page, web pages are ranked by the opinions of other members of the social bookmarking site. When you do a search inside a social bookmarking site, the search terms entered will pull up the websites that have earned the highest rankings based on other members' opinions. If someone decides they like your content and add it to their bookmarks, it is like having a positive vote for your site. The more members who "vote" for your site, the higher it will rank in the listings and that will likely lead to more visitors to your website.

How To Get Backlinks To Your Site
There are hundreds of social bookmarking sites available, so it will take some time and effort to join them all. The bookmarking sites that have high page rankings with Google are the ones you should join first. Bookmarking sites that have high page rankings include Technorati, Reddit, Digg, Del.icio.us, and StumleUpon.icio.us. When first signing up to a social bookmarking site, you can create a user profile. Take a moment to include a link to your website in your profile - the search engines love social bookmarking sites and this can provide a high page rank backlink in itself. Then, if your website includes a blog, bookmark a few blog entries which will generate backlinks as well. Self-promotion is not a good use of social bookmarking sites. If you only have links to your website and no others, eventually you may be penalized by the bookmarking site with closure of your account. You should add links from other sites that you like and in return you might get other members who will return the favor.

In order to succeed with this method, make sure to provide quality content that will get the attention of other members. It is likely they will be turned off by any content that is written for the sole intent of selling products. Give readers some value and you will find that social bookmarking is a great answer on how to get backlinks to your website.


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